From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Quick pcase question Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 12:08:23 +0000 Message-ID: <87egbrhih4.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <87lh615gt8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87mvqhw3a4.fsf@web.de> <87ziuh3z6p.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878u20vlwg.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87mvqg4bcm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457006938 22205 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2016 12:08:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 12:08:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 03 13:08:53 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1abS3p-0005Iq-1o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:08:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34412 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abS3j-0000a2-74 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 07:08:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59567) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abS3S-0000Xn-1o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 07:08:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abS3O-00050B-2z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 07:08:29 -0500 Original-Received: from cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.12]:40370) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abS3N-000506-Tj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 07:08:26 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1abS3M-0002dV-AC; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 12:08:24 +0000 Original-Received: from jangai.ncl.ac.uk ([10.66.67.223] helo=localhost) by smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1abS3L-000354-U4; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 12:08:23 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87mvqg4bcm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Thu, 3 Mar 2016 09:08:25 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109413 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: >>> It's not so much the simplicity, I guess, as the intuitiveness -- "(and x" >>> looks like a test to me, not an assignment. My brain would prefer: >>> >>> (,x (pred stringp)) >> >> What about? >> >> (guard (stringp ,x)) > > You're suggesting that as a possible alternate syntax, right? (In which > case I like it.) It doesn't actually work now, does it? Yes, apologies, my post wasn't very clear. Phil